Biography Harvey Littleton

Harvey K. Littleton, an artist who helped found the so-called studio glass movement in the United States, developing and teaching do-it-yourself techniques that freed glassblowing from the cumbersome protocols of factory production and made molten glass almost as easy to work with in the studio as wet clay, died on Dec. 13 in Spruce Pine, N.C. He was 91.

His death, which had not been widely reported, was confirmed by his daughter Carol Shay.

Mr. Littleton achieved equal renown as an artist and as a torchbearer for the mo
... Displaying 750 of 10542 characters.